{"id":292548,"date":"2025-12-01T05:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T05:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292548\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T05:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T05:52:14","slug":"balvinder-and-julian-make-strictly-history-in-tonights-dance-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292548\/","title":{"rendered":"Balvinder and Julian make Strictly history in tonight’s dance off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fans have reacted to the Strictly first online\"BalvinderBalvinder and Julian faced Alex and Johannes in the dance off (Image: BBC )<\/p>\n

Strictly Come Dancing fans watching the show tonight have just witnessed a first-ever in Strictly history as two of the remaining couples went head to head in the dance off.<\/p>\n

The week 10 results episode saw six couples whittled down to five after the results of the public vote was revealed. It was Balvinder and Julian<\/a>, and Alex and Johannes<\/a>, who received the fewest votes leaving them to go head to head in front of the judges. As fans have pointed out online, the dance off led to a first-ever for the show.<\/p>\n

Repeating their dances from Saturday night’s episode<\/a>, Balvinder and Julian danced a jive to Right Back Where We Started From by Maxine Nightingale.<\/p>\n

Alex Kingston and Johannes Radebe danced their cha cha cha to Ring My Bell by Anita Ward.<\/p>\n

In the end it was EastEnders actor Balvinder Sopal and partner Julian Caillon who survived the dance off, leading to a Strictly Come Dancing<\/a> record being broken.<\/p>\n

The win marks Balvinder’s fifth dance off victory – more than any contestant has ever won.<\/p>\n

Jamelia, who danced with Tristan MacManus in 2015<\/a>, faced 5 dance-offs during her time on the show.<\/p>\n

However she lost out on her fifth attempt to fellow contestants Peter Andre and Janette.<\/p>\n

Other celebrities have lost four dance offs including Jamie Laing, Fleur East, Molly Rainford.<\/p>\n

Three of the judges voted to save Balvinder and Julian in tonight’s episode.<\/p>\n

Anton du Beke was the only judge to choose Alex and Jojo, saying \u201cboth couples fixed their mistakes but they showed better quality\u201d.<\/p>\n

Motsi Mabuse said: \u201cIt was close with no mistakes but [Balvinder and Julian] had more attack.”<\/p>\n

Craig Revel Horwood agreed saying \u201cshe danced the pants off it and had timing and energy\u201d.<\/p>\n

The deciding vote fell to Shirley who chose to save Balvinder and Julian, saying \u201cthey upped their game more and added spice\u201d.<\/p>\n

Fans reacted on social media with one X user saying: “Did Balvinder and Julian just became the first pair to win five dance offs ever? Oh the stars of the season”.<\/p>\n

Another said: “Alex and Johannes have been great over the last 10 weeks. Sadly just not the best week for them this week.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans have reacted to the Strictly first onlineBalvinder and Julian faced Alex and Johannes in the dance off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[91159,96,1598,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-292548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-balvinder-sopal","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-strictly-come-dancing","11":"tag-tv","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}